(it's slightly odd to be watching log files and see evidence that bots have noticed this post).

We never needed a decentralized system before, and I'm not convinced that it would solve the problem. There are a number of things we can do to address the problem before we make the system complicated by a distributed system. I am reminded of the Leslie Lamport quote about distributed systems.

Just to be clear, the problem is not solved.

the server has been receiving SYN flood attacks. I made one change to improve that and yet another rate limiting change. The server has also become a target for harvesting content.

one minor improvement: generate the name of the downloaded added key with the date in it so you are less likely to overwrite an existing key. Just a guess...

that was actually an author error. They did a cut and paste error for Moni Naor's ORCID. We don't authenticate ORCIDs because it's too much of a pain in the neck.

maybe it will hallucinate bibliographic references

Looking at it another way, lowering the cost can allow scholarly societies to carry out their publishing duties more efficiently. It's unfortunately also true that "labor-saving technologies" will impact employment. These things are all interlocking, but we need to increase pressure on profits.

It's a nice article, but I disagree with one point: "Our analysis also suggests that technological advances will not help." It's certainly true that _some_ technological advances will interfere, but others can help. Labor-saving technology can reduce the cost of publishing. arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424

For some definition of "identify verification". youtu.be/nW-bFGzNMXw?... and orcid.org/0009-0003-81...

that was a different era. They are not getting paid now and everyone would understand.